01/31/2026
On another group, Someone asked... Why does conventional medicine not recognize mold toxicity?
I answered below:
I have answered this question many times to many patients. Conventional medicine is designed throughout training and practice to focus on diseases with straightforward causes and mechanisms as well as simple therapies with easily reproducible effects over short periods of time (even if you have to keep taking it for "control") that can be taken care of with pharmaceuticals in 15 minute visit increments and be covered by insurance. Mold toxicity comes in a variety of what I call "faces", meaning that different patients present with different symptoms. These different "faces" result from a variety of mechanisms over a variety of body systems. The necessary therapies require not only treating the foundational CIRS, but managing hormones, mitochondria, gut health, neuro-psychiatric symptoms, mast cell activation, and more physical symptoms while helping a patient navigate through environmental remediation by a separate remediator who may or may not understand CIRS. Each patient requires nuanced differences for the secondary effects of CIRS that does not follow a simple therapeutic approach which fits into a 15 minute visit every 3-6 months and has a ICD10 code for insurance to happily reimburse after 6-18 months of therapy. Acknowledging mold would require a different systems approach by conventional doctors, conventional insurance, and last but not least a construction industry willing to build homes in a way that does not encourage mold growth from day 1. Seems almost overwhelming to change an old system, so we created an alternative system where we can treat the broken bodies and broken lives.... that is what those of us in the mold toxicity world have done.
